Sham Version of COIN Passed by Union Influenced Fullerton City Council?
Sham Version of COIN Passed by Union Influenced Fullerton City Council?
Here is a postmortem on the final passage on June 17th of the Fullerton version of a “Civic Openness in Labor Negotiations (COIN) ordinance: During the council meeting a few of citizen activists tried valiantly to persuade two other Fullerton council members in addition to Council member Bruce Whitaker to reject the City of Fullerton’s...
By Barry Levinson
Union Influenced Fullerton City Council Guts Proposed COIN Ordinance
Union Influenced Fullerton City Council Guts Proposed COIN Ordinance
This is my first opportunity to compare an excellent law, the Costa Mesa Ordinance on Civic Openness in Negotiations (C.O.I.N.) vs. the Fullerton Draft C.O.I.N Ordinance. Costa Mesa’s Civic Openness in Negotiations ordinance was designed to make public employee salary and benefit negotiations open and transparent to the public and to all members of the city council as...
By Barry Levinson